Different countries with beef over geographic names will stick to the official name for their peeps né?. As of Monday evening, though, GNIS is still flashing the Gulf of Mexico and Denali with their OG names.
. Yeah you heard it right! This move comes hot on the heels of the Trump administration flipping the script and changing up names on a bunch of American landmarks just last week.
So Google is playing nice and following the executive order by rolling out these new names once the federal mapping database gets with the program né?. Take Mexico, for example. Brace yourselves folks – the Gulf of Mexico is about to get a new identity as the “Gulf of America” for Google Maps users in the good ol’ U.S né?. Google dropped the bombshell on Monday that they’re giving the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali mountain a little makeover on Google Maps. As for Denali it’s going to go by the name of Mount McKinley for global users.
Originally dubbed Mount McKinley in 1917 as a tip of the hat to President William McKinley this mountain had a glow-up during the Obama days in 2015 when it was rechristened Denali. of A. But hold on to your hats – the Trump administration decided to switch things back to Mount McKinley, despite some Alaskan senators giving them the side-eye.
Now, not everyone who checks out Google Maps will see the Gulf of America title né?. The gulf will keep its Gulf of Mexico moniker, with President Claudia Sheinbaum basically laughing off Trump’s attempt to mix things up.
Google spilled the beans that they’re going to roll out these changes as soon as the official American naming database, the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), gets a facelift
